Where The Devil Dont Stay Chords by Drive-By Truckers

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

My EmDaddy played poker in the woods they say,

Gback in his younger days

AProhibition was the talk,

but the rich folks walked to the Emwoods where my Daddy stayed

Verse 2

EmJugs and jars from shiners, these old bGoys here, they ain't miners

They Acame from the twenty-niners

It didn't take a Emhole in the ground to put the bottom in their face

Em G A Em

Verse 3

EmBack in the thirties when the dust bowl dried

And the Gwoods in Alabama didn't see no light

My Daddy Aplayed poker by a hard wood fire

EmSqueezing all his luck from a hot copper wire

EmScrap like a wildcat fights till the end

GTrap a wildcat and take his skin

ADeal from the bottom, put the ace in the hole

One hand on the jug but you never do know D A C G

Chorus1

DSon come running

AYou better come quick

CThis rotgut moonshine is Gmaking me sick

DYour Mama called the law and they're gonnaA take me away

CDown so far even the DGevil won't stay

Verse 4

EmWhere I call to the Lord with all my soul

GI can hear him rattling the chains on the door

AHe couldn't get in I could see he tried

EmThrough the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light

Chorus2

DDaddy tell me another story

ATell me about the lows and the highs

CTell me how to tell the difference between what they teGll me is the truth

or a lie

DTell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mAad

CWith the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jGug in

their hand

EmMy Daddy played poker on a stump in the woods Gback when the world was gray

ABefore black and white went and chose up sides and gEmave a little bit of both their way

The only blood that's any cleaner is the bGlood that's blue or greener

AWithout either you just get meaner and the Emblood you gave gives you away

D A C G